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100 1 $aCowart, David,$d1947-
245 10 $aTrailing clouds :$bimmigrant fiction in contemporary America /$cDavid Cowart.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 249 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-237) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the new immigrant writing -- Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet -- Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents -- Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company -- Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge -- Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylène Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot Díaz's Drown -- Conclusion : we, them, us.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aImmigrants in literature.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration in literature.
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